giacino's blog

New Orleans Jazz -- "O Holy Night"

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 20:47:46 -0800

ok, one last post before leaving on a jetplane.
I am starting to be fan of "Studio 60", the new NBC series featuring Matthew Perry (Friends) and Bradley Whitford (West Wing). Last week show had an amazing musical performance by New orleans musicians.

You can download the mp3 at http://www.nbc.com/Studio_60_on_the_Sunset_Strip/music/studio_60_o_holy_night.mp3

Six Days - DJ Shadow by WKW

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:06:16 -0800

I am leaving on Sunday for Paris but I did not want to go without posting a great music video that was released a few years ago.

Six Days.
Music: DJ Shadow.
Director: Wong Kar Wai
Director of Photography: Christopher Doyle
Actors: Chang Chen and Danielle Graham

What not to like!!! Well, the YouTube video encoding does spoil a bit the beauty of the cinematography.

Enjoy!

"Bird Songs" Book. A great gift for x-mas.

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 07:26:32 -0800

The Lab Of Ornithology is proud to present The "Bird Songs" book. It is a printed book which comes with an attached audio player. It covers 250 birds of north-america with great text and graphics. For each bird, you can use the associated audio player to listen to the bird's call.

"Bird Song" is available on Amazon.com for merely $27 USD and it is the 27th most popular book on amazon right now.

The Killers "Bones" By Tim Burton

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:09:13 -0800

Tin Burton did his first music video and it is very.. hmmm... burtonesque.

There is a some

Dennis Leary - I'm an Asshole (Uncensored)

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:18:48 -0800

Mp3tag 2.37 available (Windows only)

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:54:45 -0800

Mp3tag 2.37 available (Windows only)

mp3tag is an metadata editor for many audio formats (aac, flac, mp4, wma, mp4, ape, etc....)

I haven't used this tool yet, but it sounds like a great tool if you need to clean a massive amount of audio files in various formats.

Let me know if you have used mp3tag before.

Solution to deliver and control music all over the house

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:15:14 -0800

For the last several months, I've be investigating how I could listen to the music available on my computer everywhere in my place and control it. Until now, I've been running an RCA cable between my computer and my amplifier. When I need to change song, I need to go to my computer, if I am in my kitchen or bedroom, it isn't ideal. To distribute the music around my place, I am thinking about an amplifier with several outputs (A, B, A + B type) or I could add a distribution amp/switcher. I don't mind so much going to the main amp to decide where i want to listen the music.

SXSW 2007?

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:55:55 -0800

Who is going to SXSW music in Austin (March 14-18, 2007)? I'll be there for the SXSW interactive (March 9-13), thanks Cornell!! I am hoping to stick around for a few more days, and I would definitely be happy and willing to give a hand to Project Opus if needed.

Oh, Are there bands from Project Opus performing at SXSW? I hope so.

Let me know,

Gui

If you are having a performance in this bed, I am IN.

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:12:08 -0700

Sonic Bed is a purpose built portable venue which plays music that moves for the prone bodies of an audience, who can come lie in the bed alone or together.

I guess this is the new water bed kind of experience, except that you can become deaf.

Playing back Ogg Vorbis in iTunes.

Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:07:49 -0700

iTunes has been over the years my favorite app to play back music on the Mac, not sure if it was by lack of choice... anyhow, iTunes supports a lot of media formats (wav, AIFF, mp3, mp4, etc) basically all the audio formats supported by QuickTime.

But what it doesn't support by default is native FLAC such as Ogg Vorbis.

Thanks to the Xiph QuickTime Components (XiphQT), you can now listen to those files within iTunes (and any other app relying on QuickTime for its audio playback).

Meet. Mix. Mashup online

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 12:02:27 -0700

Another cool site, allowing users to mix music online in real time.
Check it out http://www.splicemusic.com/
The samples are covered under the Creative Commons licensing, so you can mix/share/distribute as much as you want. Then download your mix as a MP3 or share your sequencer.

The whole sequencer app uses Flash and can even access your USB microphone or iSight. Very nice!

Dicover music with MusicMap

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:42:04 -0700

Flash web app MusicMap is a search visualization tool that lets you search for musicians or albums and see related artists in a webbed network of relation.

I am not sure how accurate it is, but the flash animation is definitely cool.

http://www.dimvision.com/musicmap/

Finally a good concert to see in Ithaca.

Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:23:17 -0800

I finally found a concert to go and see in Ithaca NY.

April 9th: Death Cab For Cutie and Franz Ferdinand with special guests The Cribs

http://www.cornell-concert.com/

it should be pretty fun . They aren't playing in a stadium

I got my tickets - Sorry guys and gals, it is already sold out!

Gui.

Getting artwork for iTunes

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:41:38 -0700

I have quite a few songs in my iTunes library. So far I've used some AppleScripts to search for the album covers on Google, Amazon and SlothRadio, but it still required me to manually drag each image into iTunes, which can be very tidious.

Posting from Ithaca...

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:56:04 -0700

Ithaca was supposed to be gorges... Most of the cars have a bumper sticker saying so, I guess locales are trying to convince you in case you are still not sure of it....

Ithaca was supposed to be a city university full of students partying... Where?